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Intelligent signs of extraterrestrial origin coming from The Andromeda Galaxy detected for the first time in History, by the Drake spatial radio-telescope.

The radio waves left two million years ago from our neighboring galaxy, M-31.


ARTICLE: A COSMIC ROSETTA STONE, COME ON!:
AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROXIMATION

ARTICLE: PRINCESS ANDROMEDA’S QUARKS:
A MYTHOLOGICAL APPROXIMATION

ARTICLE: CONTACT (CINEMATOGRAPHIC CRITIQUE)

 

 N10, ARECIBO, PUERTO RICO. JULY 11th, 2057

“The biggest discovery in the History of Humanity”-pointed out Enrique Fuentes, the astrobiologist, director of the program S.E.T.I, looking for extraterrestrial intelligence. Was the scientist exaggerating? A radio signal coming from the heart of the object Messier 31, better known as the Andromeda galaxy was captured by the tandem of radio-telescopes lined up Drake-Arecibo on June 6th of 2057, at 03:21:57 GMT.

A few months had to pass until a Hawaiian girl of nine years of age, Rosalina Maryland, discovered with her computer that the signal lines weren’t random; the beginning of the emission could be defined by a complex algorithm. After discriminating the data, as they had been doing for more than eight decades, the SETI scientists put the signal under rigorous scrutiny: they discarded interferences by telecommunications teams, radio waves that the galaxy emits at a band of 158.8 MHz and, when they were getting ready to reject the emission because of not having the correct Gaussian parameters…an enormous surprise came up!! That transmission had every appearance of being intelligent, without a doubt. The little girl had warned the scientists about the high transmission frequencies and about a concrete section of the sky, toward where they pointed their radio telescopes again, toward northern latitudes from 30 degrees south, concretely toward an object that astronomers call NGC 224. “We have found a voice that speaks, or that speaks to us from the other side of the cosmos…


 
A conversation with supposed extraterrestrials from Andromeda would be “a bit slow”; taking into account the limitations of the speed of light, only the exchange of hellos would take four million years.
   
 

…we still have no idea what it says, but what is evident is that the 17,345 bits that it is composed of constitute a message, an idea, a concrete concept. No known physical phenomenon would generate the type of binary signs that precede the message and that precisely alert us of it”-Doctor Fuentes certified to the expectant journalists.


 We are before one of the most amazing articles that any scientific journalist could ever dream of covering: Frank Drake, impeller of the SETI project finally found what he was looking for, radio signals of extraterrestrial origin gifted with the unmistakable print of intelligence!! But he didn’t discover it in person, his spatial cherub did, the radio-optic telescope that bears his name and that substituted the ill-fated Hubble. The enormous infrastructure was the crowning jewel of spatial engineering only recently surpassed by the massive Kensner Ring. Through an ingenious signal discrimination system, the calculation speed multiplied by the number of internauts that wanted to collaborate on the project, through the already close Seti@home, a little domestic software system, that already had millions of years of computation time accumulated. Rosalina Maryland, from the perspective that she had at her nine little years, modified the software on order to “expand the scene even more”, and not only the spectrum of waves in volume to the frequency of 1.42 GHz, the so-called “water hole”. This spectrum was established upon thinking that all intelligent life would be based on water, and on the electromagnetic emissions of the elements that they are composed of, oxygen and hydrogen (the most abundant element in the universe). Rosalina, a smart cookie, decided to pick up and analyze the unused information that the radio telescopes captured, out of that frequency range, and that was generated in the devices’ routine checks, that moved between 1 and 10 GHz, and that was the key to the discovery. Under this frequency the quantum limit and the sensitivity of the instruments marked the red line, the border of detection. Above 10 GHz the energetic abundance would be notable and, at first, this would discard those frequencies (together with the overexposure of the antennas to the galactic noise.)

Drake’s formula was used so that various generations could dream about the real possibility of the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life (among them, the scientist Carl Sagan giving expression to his wistful thinking (?) in “Contact”.) According to his equation, presumably between 10,000 and 100,000 technological civilizations could exist only within our galaxy, the Milky Way. The brilliant Spanish biochemist Juan Oró corrected the maestro by estimating that there would be less than a thousand. In any case, the enormous plate of the spatial instrument- three hundred meters in diameter- , aligned with his recently rejuvenated terrestrial twin in Arecibo (Puerto Rico) achieved what scientists had been looking for, for more than eighty years. Strangely, the codified radio signal, with a non random guideline, didn’t come from our dwelling in the Cosmos-our galaxy- but from the neighboring one, the enormous Andromeda, one and a half times the size of ours. The signal captured –shockingly polarized to get to us despite the effect of the dispersion after traveling such a distance- came from the center of the M-31 object, situated more than two million light years away from Earth. This enormous amount of time (2 million years) are those that have passed from the time that the signal was emitted; this first piece of data was interpreted by the scientists on the project as revealing and they practically discard any relation with the artificial macro-structure found on Pluto. A conversation with supposed extraterrestrials from Andromeda would be “a bit slow”; taking into account the limitations of the speed of light, only the exchange of hellos would take four million years. This, along with the strange frequency of the signal, 9,632 GHz, created the thesis that maybe we weren’t the receptors that they had planned on catching on their emitter. On this line: 

“When the Australopithecus Boisei- among other hominid species- swarmed around Earth at the end of the Tertiary, ‘someone’ or ‘something’ emitted a signal that now reaches Earth. We don’t know if (1) the emission was directed towards us, (2)we captured it upon finding ourselves between the emitter and the receptor, or (3) it simply fulfilled its’ informative mission over there at its’ destination and wandered around space until it got to our radio-telescope in a very fortunate way”. –the Astro-biologist Fuentes indicated. The mystery is dished out and the speculations, the guesses, the conjectures multiply exponentially at each step. In the first implicit hypothesis interrogative, will the extraterrestrials calculate our technological evolution during those two million years? 

Stephen Hawking suggested that these gravitational macrostructures could be used by very advanced civilizations in order to tele-transport between different times and different places in the universe. An advanced extraterrestrial civilization could establish itself in a solar system near those wormholes, like we do, attached to a station or airport when it comes time to look for a new place to live."
 
  Fuentes dared to answer us and along the way indicate how the scientists confirmed that the emission was intelligent: “Sometimes, in the history of science, coincidence is a determining factor: The little girl, providentially, came from school after doing a quantum physics exam. She took the message and started to decode the small ‘packages’ that the signal was divided into, every 0.93 seconds. The machine translated bits to numbers and she simply chose six, concretely, 1, 5, 4…80….1,150….4,100…..172,500….which series was it? The progression of the amount of money that she thought she would earn each passing year? No: The thoughts of the prodigious child flew over such mundane goals. She had seen those numbers somewhere…The truth is that Rosalina Maryland had an amazing capacity for scientific mathematics and she showed it, in an irrefutable way, very quickly: She thought about it all day and all night, and the next morning she knew where the solution lay: In her physics book. Those numbers indicated the proportion of masses that six types of known quarks had, “up,” “down,” “charm,” “strange,” “top” and “bottom”…

…one with respect to another. In the series there were fourteen more numbers, presumably indicators of the masses of other quarks that are until now unknown to us, but the miracle had already been carried out. The truth is that only a species of a certain scientific-technological level is capable of weighing hadrons”, the scientist concluded-Was it just one concrete and precise emission or on the contrary, constant for all this time, until it was captured, upon knowing where to “listen”? The answer was much simpler: “The emission was continuous and cyclical.” After this lesson, the one about discovering the quarks’ masses, there followed another much more complex one of quantum chromo dynamics, maybe with a tautological character with respect to the first (a kind of reiterated call to ones’ attention expressed in different ways), that the little girl didn’t know how to decipher but the experts did…but not without a certain amount of difficulty! After this, they would probably undo the message itself, until the totally hieroglyphic moment, maybe immersed in an abstruse amalgam of data that would have to be dissociated later to decode it, like we’ve already done with other intelligent species…in any case an opaque message to human knowledge…for the time being. 

Looking for the concrete origin of the mystery  (at the same time as encouraging) signal, the scientists tried to chart the exact zone where it was born, as it seemed to be very close to one of the X ray sources of the Andromeda galaxy. Said sources usually originate from black holes or neutron stars meaning, according to the director of SETI, has its’ logic: “Stephen Hawking suggested that these gravitational macrostructures could be used by very advanced civilizations in order to tele-transport between different times and different places in the universe. An advanced extraterrestrial civilization could establish itself in a solar system near those wormholes, like we do, attached to a station or airport when it comes time to look for a new place to live." This, I stress, isn’t anything more than a conjecture that I venture on, before the scarce data at work in our power. Our instruments have detected at least twenty nine planetary systems in that galactic region. And we did it with the old Doppler technique, that allows us to detect tiny gaps in the rotation of the stars around its’ mass center of solar systems. 


Despite the alien message still being undeciphered today in day, the complex first step has been taken: The scientists have gone through the Rubicon that implied recognizing and identifying an extraterrestrial intelligence! A million quantum computers throughout half the world were overheating while trying to uncover the mystery. But it could take a year to do it…

 
We aren’t alone!!! Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence had been successful. “The greatest discovery in the History of Humanity” had been produced and we had had the great fortune of living it.   
 

…a year, ten years, a millennium, no one knew. Maybe we should try to invent (or discover) a new advanced mathematic so that from it some cryptographic algorithms would appear, necessary to decipher the message. No one knew how long it would take. It could be that the next steps would have to be taken by the coming generations.

 
In any case, the formidable news, waited for by all the human generations in History, was already drawn out as an incontrovertible reality: We aren’t alone!!! Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence had been successful. “The greatest discovery in the History of Humanity” had been produced and we had had the great fortune of living it.   



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